Ron Burgundy Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 AP - Rescue workers used chain saws and hand picks Monday to dig out bodies in Japan's devastated coastal towns, as Asia's richest nation faced a mounting humanitarian, nuclear and economic crisis in the aftermath of a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed thousands. More... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alichino Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Is it true the entire island got moved 8 feet? I heard that somewhere.. not sure if its true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Duck Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Yea the fault line made japan move eight feet from the equator I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Tea Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Wow... this is so horrible. Is it true the entire island got moved 8 feet? I heard that somewhere.. not sure if its true. That is highly unlikely, but with an earthquake that big on the richter scale the island could have moved a little but 8 feet seems to much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skanky Tank Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 It did move 8 feet. BRIAN WILLIAMS SAID IT DID! However, Japan is just about screwed. If the nuclear plant goes, half the city of Tokyo goes with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetiredTacos Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 The whole country did not move 8 feet. It did leave quite a rupture in the ocean floor, surprised the tsunami wasn't worse. Dr. Daniel McNamara, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, told The Huffington Post that the disaster left a gigantic rupture in the sea floor, 217-miles long and 50 miles wide. It also shifted Japan's coast by eight feet in some parts, though McNamara was quick to explain much of the coast likely didn't move as far. McNamara found the way in which the quake actually sank the elevation of the country's terrain to be more troublesome than coastal shifting. "You see cities still underwater; the reason is subsidence," he said. "The land actually dropped, so when the tsunami came in, it's just staying." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alichino Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Wow that's still insane.. Hopefully they get the nuclear reactors under control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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